Anyone ever look at the Bufori website? Tell me if I'm wrong, but their Geneva model might have been inspired by Packard

My son will be getting married in Cincinatti in May...Does anyone know the name of a limousine service that has a Packard for hire?

Very nice...wishing you lots of HAPPY MILES ahead!!!

I think that all of these reasons played a part in Packard's demise...which in my humble opinion could have been prevented with a Hudson and Nash merger immediately before or after WWII...in time to roll out a rationalized product line in '48 or '49...or even '50. The biggest stumbling block might have been dear Mr McCauley himself who could not imagine Packard being anything but...Packard. I think he did not see the world change around him. The premise of Agatha Christie's mystery "AT Bertam's Hotel" is that the world changes and when something doesn't change with time, there is a problem.

you might ask Donald Taccone in Birmingham Alabama...he is a PAC director...owns a "55 Caribbean and several other Packards and has a garage on southside in Birmingham

Best wishes from Alabama

of course if the Patrician was hardtop...then...

Glad to hear from you!

The original dealership is just past where I-10 crosses St Charles and on the right as you go out. The word Packard is still over the door. The second building is the Spanish Colonial style one and a bit further down and on the left. Presently it houses Regions Bank.

I have seen one Custom and one Deluxe on e-bay over the years with hydraulics--they must not have been very popular. The Henney funeral cars and ambulances did have them, however.